Labour market
Robots will never completely replace people
Wednesday 04 December 2019 |
Barbara Erling Katarzyna Korzeniowska
| BiQdata
By 2030, as many as 20 million manufacturing jobs will be lost to robots, according to a report published by Oxford Economics, a global forecasting company. Some people have already started to fight back – in the footsteps of the 19th-century Luddites – deliberately sabotaging the robots they work with on a daily basis. They are afraid that these robots will take over their jobs.
What about the security of security guards?
Monday 16 December 2019 |
Ana Kuzmanić Ivana Perić
| H-Alter
Security guards in Croatia suffer from harsh working conditions: extremely long work shifts, poor equipment, minimum salary. They are overburned and cannot have a proper private life, but they have little alternatives. Yet security business is flourishing in Europe, and companies make millions of revenues.
Ten graphs to understand the Greek crisis
Friday 24 August 2018 |
Guillaume Duval | Alternatives Economiques
On August 20th, Greece stepped out from under the supervision of the Troika. Its intervention will go down in history as a model of what not to do when you really want to help a nation recover.
Is your region a brain gainer or drainer?
Thursday 20 June 2019 |
Newsworthy The battle for talent within the European Union is a story about both brain drain and gain. We have analyzed the migration patterns across the continent to create hundreds of reports going down to the regional level, paying special attention to highly skilled workers.
Safety and health at work (ESENER)
Sunday 14 January 2018 |
Alternatives Economiques The European survey of enterprises on new and emerging risks is a vast study which examines the way in which the risks relating to health and safety are managed by European enterprises.
Employment by sex and age (Eurostat)
Sunday 12 May 2019 |
Alternatives Economiques Since 1992, Eurostat has been focusing annually on employment rates in Europe by age and gender.
The mirage of cheaper labor
in depth
Wednesday 13 November 2019 |
Marc Chevallier | Alternatives Economiques
In their quest for competitiveness many countries are fixated on cutting the cost of labor, in particular by reducing social-insurance contributions. But it that the right solution?
Is Chinese A.I. Bluffing its Way into Europe?
in depth
Thursday 03 October 2019 |
Vincent Lorin | VoxEurop
Locked for years in digital alienation, the EU has set a new standard on data protection and privacy, wrestling back some control from Silicon Valley. But with the coming of age of AI-based applications, Chinese firms strive in turn for a piece of the colony.
Retirement without peace
Tuesday 08 October 2019 |
Ana Kuzmanić Ivana Perić
| H-Alter
More than 11,000 retired Croatian are still working. Some of them seek a more active life, but the majority lives on the brink of poverty without any other option other than to keep working – a problem in common with many other European countries.
Croatia: those who leave
Thursday 19 September 2019 |
Francesca Rolandi | OBC Transeuropa
While Croatia may be a paradise for tourism, actually living and working there is a lot more difficult. Croatian workers move abroad in large numbers: a phenomenon rooted in a combination of both long-term and short-term factors. An analysis.
